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Word War & Progress Reports [NaNoWriMo2009]

   
Well, I've got some pretty high hopes here.

The gameplan is: give it a month or so, get back to it and hack it to pieces, let some people read it and smash it up, get the proof copy, hate it, start sending it to publishers and get a dozen rejection letters.

Hooray, it's gonna be a great year.

Some NaNo Funny (demotivational posters).

No true edition progress, but my subconscious is hard at work while I waste my time on molecules and exams. I sense 2010 will be a busy writing year.

EDIT: While I'm at it, you all have been fairly silent. How is everything coming along?

I think we are the only ones left Annalia. Welcome to the dystopian future.

Nah, you're not alone. You're just the ones talking loud enough for the tigers to get. ^_^

In other news, I'm still pounding away at my novel. Slower than in November, but that's because I'm doing more plotting and world building. And research - my god, the research. I'm sticking to pure fantasy from now on. >_<

I'm still working, as well. It's just harder to fit in with the rest of life.

I've got exactly 2 pages of my first rewrite of book 1 done. *bangs head on desk* It was totally a lot easier the first time around. Totally. On the up side, I've gotten more like 10 done on the other one.

Leaving edits for eh....winter break.
Too much of a slacker to get editing done now.

I'm still working on what I did for NaNo. I'm actually going through and finding that I like a lot of what I originally wrote (a surprising amount, really) and so I'm adding that in, making a few adjustments and tweaks, and generally considering this the first pass. I'll add more at the end, then probably edit again and run through and add even more at the end, and eventually I'll have an edited and complete book. It may not be how you're supposed to do it, but honestly I just can't manage to write it and not read it, and go on for page after page not really knowing if I'm even going in the right direction. I just can't.

Hey, I think that as long as you get to the end, it works. I don't know how you can tell the right direction from the wrong one before you've covered quite a bit of ground since you took it, though. I need distance to do that.

Also, yay, semester over! I've written half the missing scenes to my first NaNo and added notes about things I considered changing. Oh, and the fact I had time to think but not to write led to the ground work of three new stories. This means I'll have six ongoing project for 2010, and I bet I'll find more ideas along the way. There's a lot going on in my head.




 

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